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EXERCISE NINETEEN C Passage 1 The first jazz musicians played in New Orleans during the early 1900s. After 1917. many of the New Orleans musicians moved to the south side of Chicago. where they continued to play their style of jazz. Soon Chicago was the n ew-ce nter for jazz. Several outsta nding musicia ns emerged as leadi ng jazz artists in Chicago. Daniel Lotus Satchmo Armstro ng, born in New Orlea ns in 1900, was one. Ano ther leadi ng musicia n was Joseph king Oliver. who is also credited with havi ng discovered Armstr ong, whe n they were both in New Orlea ns. While in Chicago. Oliver asked Armstro ng, who was in New Orlea ns, to join his ban d. In 1923 King Olivers Creole Jazz Band made the first important set of recordings by a Hot Five and Hot Seven bands un der Louis Armstro ng also made record ings of special no te. Although Chicago 5 South Side was the main jazz center, some musicians in New York were also demanding attention in jazz circles. In 1923 Fletcher Henderson already had a ten - piece band that played jazz. During the early 1930 5, the number of players grew to sixteen. Henderson s band was con sidered a leader in what some people have called the Big Band Era. By the 1930 5. big dance bands were the rage. Large numbers of people went to ballrooms to dance to jazz music played by big ban ds. One of the most popular and also a very famous jazz band was the Duke Eili ngton band. Edward Duke Ellington was born in Washington, D.C., in 1899 and died in New York City in 1974. He studied the piano as a young boy and later began writing original musical compositions. The first of Ellingtons European tours came in 1933. He soon received international fame for his tale nt as a band leader, composer. and arra nger. Ten years later, Elli ngton bega n givi ng annual con certs at Carn egic Hall in New York City. People bega n to liste n to jazz in the same way, that they had always liste ned to classical music. It can be in ferred from the passage that Louis